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Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

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CHARLES A. GAINES, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLESMENDELSON, OF SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR CARBONATlNG LIQUIDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,938, dated April26, 1898.

Application filed June 18, 1897.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. GAINES, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State ofLouisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inApparatus for Carbonating Liquids; and I do declare the following to beafull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention relates to apparatus for carbonating liquids, and itspreferred embodiment will be fully understood from the followingdescription and claims when taken in conjunction with the annexeddrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view of my improved apparatuscomplete, with some of the parts in section and others in elevation.Fig. 2 is a detail horizontal section taken in a plane above the pump,and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section taken in the plane indicated bythe line a; w of Fig. 2.

In the said drawings similar letters designate corresponding parts inall of the several views, referring to which A indicates the base of myimproved apparatus, and B indicates the closed receiver or mixingvessel; which is suitably secured to the base. This vessel B has amongits appurtenances a safety -.valve a. and waterglasses Z2, and it isprovided at about the elevation shown with shafts 0 cl, the former beingprovided with a sprocket-wheel e and a gear-wheel f and the latter beingprovided with a pinion g, which meshes with the gearwheel f, and beingalso provided with a wheel It, having peripheral buckets 2', for apurpose presently to be described.

0 indicates a carbonic-acid-gas cartridge such as ordinarily used, whichis provided with a discharge-valve j and is connected with the interiorof the vessel B by a pipe 70,

leading from the valve 3' and equipped with a pressure-gage Z.

I) indicates a valved discharge-pipe for the carbonated liquid, whichleads from the interior of the vessel 13 to a fountain or toarefrigeratin g device intermediate of the receiver and the fountain.

E indicates a pipe for conducting water into derial No. 641,323. (Nomodel.)

the interior of the vessel B, which pipe has its discharge end soarranged as to discharge the water or other liquid against the buckets tof the wheel h, and thereby cause said wheel to turn in the directionindicated by arrow, and F indicates an endless sprocketchain of aboutthe proportional length illustrated, which takes around and depends fromthe sprocket-wheel c and is provided at intervals in its length withbuckets m.

Water or other liquid to be carbonated is conducted under pressure intothe vessel B through the pipe E and is discharged against the buckets t'of wheel h, so as to cause rotation of said wheel,and consequently causethe chain to travel in the direction indicated by arrow. In virtue ofthis it will be seen that when the cartridge 0 is connected with thevessel B and the upper portion of said vessel is occupied bycarbonic-acid gas, the buckets m of the chain F will raise the liquidand after passing over the sprocket 6 will discharge the same inshowers. Consequently the. liquid and the carbonic-acid gas will bequickly cornmingled and the carbonating of the liquid will be materiallyaccelerated. Again, it will be seen that after discharging the liquidthe buckets we will be occupied by carbonic-acid gas, which they willcarry down into the body of the liquid, and thus further accelerate thecarbonating of the same.

G indicates a force-pump, preferably a doubleact-ing one, which may beof the ordinary or any suitable construction and need not therefore bespecifically described. This pump, which may be operated by hand throughthe medium of a lever 12, is connected by a pipe 19, which may beequipped with a meter q, with a water-main or other source of supply,and said pump has its dischargechamber connected with the pipe E, saidpipe Ebeing preferably connected to the discharge air-chamber of thepump, as better shown in Fig. 3. When the pump is operated, it will beseen that water will be drawn through the pipe 19 into itsinduction-chamber and will be discharged through its eduction-chamberand the pipe E, so as to fill the vessel B to the proper height and atthe same time drive the chain F. In this way the water in the vessel 13will be carbonated while the vessel Bis being charged with water. When asufficient quantity of water is placed in the vessel B, a three-way cockII, with which the pipe 19 is equipped, is turned so as to shut offcommunication between the pump and the watermain or other source ofsupply and establish communication between apipe I, leading from thelower portion of the vessel B, and the induction-chamber of the pump G.At the same time the valve j of cartridge 0 is closed and the pump isthen operated. When this is done, the water or other liquid will becirculated in a closed cycle from the lower portion of vessel B throughpipe I, pump Gr, pipe E, to the upper portion of said vessel B, and willconsequently be quickly commingled with the carbonic-acid gas containedin the vessel B, or, in other Words, will be thoroughly commingled.

To further accelerate the thorough commingling of the gas and liquid, Iprovide the pipe J, which leads from the upper portion of the vessel Bto the discharge-chamber of the pump. By reason of this pipe J it Willbe seen that when the pump is in operation and liquid is being forcedthrough the pipe E gas will be siphoned from the upper portion of thevessel B through the pipe J and will be drawn into the discharge-chamberof the pump and the pipe E and carried by the latter back to the vesselB, being commingled with the liquid en route.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

1. In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, the combination of a closedvessel adapted to contain liquid and carbonic-acid gas, a liquidelevatorarranged in said vessel, a liquid-supply pipe leading from a source ofsupply into the closed vessel, and mechanism arranged to'be operated bythe stream of water from said supply pipe and connected with theliquid-elevator so as to transmit motion to the same, substantially asspecified.

2. In an apparatus for carbonatin g liquids, the combination of a closedvessel, a pump, a conduit leading from the eduction-chamber of the pumpto the closed vessel, a liquid-conduit connecting the induction-chamberof the pump and the closed vessel, a pipe J, connecting the upperportion of the closed vessel and the pump, and a water-elevator arrangedin the closed vessel and operative by the stream of liquid from thefirstnamed conduit, substantially as specified.

3. In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, the combination of a closedvessel adapted to contain liquid and carbonic-acidgas, a liquidelevatorarranged in said vessel, a pump, a pipe leading from the discharge ofthe pump into the closed vessel, and mechanism arranged to be operatedby the stream of liquid from said pipe and connected with theliquidelevator so as to transmit motion to the same, substantially asspecified.

4. In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, the combination of a closedvessel adapted to contain liquid and carbonic-acid gas,a liquidelevatorarranged in said vessel, a pump, a pipe leading from the discharge ofthe pump into the closed vessel, mechanism arranged to be operated bythe stream of liquid from said pipe and connected with theliquid-elevator so as to transmit motion to the same, and a pipeconnecting the closed vessel and the induction-chamber of the pump,substantially as specified.

5. In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, the combination of a closedvessel adapted to contain liquid and carbonic-acid gas,a liquidelevatorarranged in said vessel, a pump, a pipe leading from the discharge ofthe pump into the closed vessel, mechanism arranged to be operated bythe stream of liquid from said pipe and connected with theliquid-elevator so as to transmit motion to the same, a pipe I,connected with the closed vessel, a three-way cock connected with saidpipe I, and also With a pipe leading from a source of liquid-supply, anda pipe leading to the induction-chamber of the pump, substantially asspecified.

6. In an apparatus for carbonatin g liquids, the combination of a closedvessel adapted to i contain liquid and carbonic-acid gas, a pump,

a pipe leading from the discharge of the pump into the closed vessel anda Water-elevator arranged and adapted to discharge in the closed vesseland operative by the stream of Water from the pipe, substantially asspecified.

7. In an apparatus for carbonating liquids, a closed vessel formingpartof a closed cycle, a pipe forming part of the closed cycle andhaving its discharge end arranged in the closed vessel,a water-elevatorarranged in the closed vessel and operative by the stream of water fromthe pipe, and means for maintaining a circulation of liquid through theclosed cycle, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' CHARLES A. GAINES. Witnesses:

S. ROBINSON, MIKE S. HART.

